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From: "Vernon A. Fort" <vfort@×××××××××××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] pam errors in update world - how to trackdown
Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2007 23:49:37
Message-Id: 4710047B.5060307@provident-solutions.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] pam errors in update world - how to trackdown by reader@newsguy.com
1 reader@×××××××.com wrote:
2 > I'm getting an error when update world tries to install sys-libs/pam
3 > that tell me this:
4 >
5 >
6 >>>> Merging sys-libs/pam-0.99.8.1-r1 to /
7 >>>>
8 > *
9 > * Your current setup is using one or more of the following modules,
10 > * that are not built or supported anymore:
11 > * pam_pwdb, pam_radius, pam_timestamp
12 > * If you are in real need for these modules, please contact the maintainers
13 > * of PAM through http://bugs.gentoo.org/ providing information about its
14 > * use cases.
15 > *
16 > * ERROR: sys-libs/pam-0.99.8.1-r1 failed.
17 > * Call stack:
18 > * ebuild.sh, line 1703: Called dyn_preinst
19 > * ebuild.sh, line 1142: Called pkg_preinst
20 > * pam-0.99.8.1-r1.ebuild, line 162: Called die
21 > * The specific snippet of code:
22 > * check_old_modules || die "deprecated PAM modules still used"
23 > * The die message:
24 > * deprecated PAM modules still used
25 >
26 >
27 > Apparently I need to remove one or more of those listed but having a
28 > time finding them.
29 >
30 > equery files pam turns up nothing with those names
31 > equery list|grep shows no promising hits on pwdb, radius or timestamp
32 >
33 > I did find a pwdb package but it shows no hits on those names either.
34 >
35 > How might I track this down? Or is the error really about something
36 > else?
37 >
38 had the same issue - re-emerge cracklib (emerge cracklib) - look at the
39 errors just above.
40
41 Vernon
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